Re: data type bigint(20)

MySQL Gurus, I'm trying to figure out what the number after the type means for numbers. I noticed in someone's code that for the ID field they used bigint(20). bigint I thought was fixed at 8 bytes. Does this override the size? 20 bytes??? 20 bits? Thanks John

RE: data type bigint(20)

Message- From: John D. Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 3:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: data type bigint(20) MySQL Gurus, I'm trying to figure out what the number after the type means for numbers. I noticed in someone's code

RE: data type bigint(20)

. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: data type bigint(20) MySQL Gurus, I'm trying to figure out what the number after the type means for numbers. I noticed in someone's code that for the ID field they used bigint(20). bigint I thought was fixed at 8 bytes. Does this override the size? 20 bytes